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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix.

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The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

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Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.

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We all have a world of things within us: everyone their own! And how can we understand each other, sir, if in the words I say I put the meaning and the value of the things within me; whilst he who listens, inevitably, understands them with the meaning and the value that they have for each other, of the world like he has it within him? We think we understand each other, we never understand each other!

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The whole is in the small things: the child is small but contains the man, the mind is restricted and it creates thought, the eye is but a dot but it embraces spaces.

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What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?'
'Cats don't have names,' it said.
'No?' said Coraline.
'No,' said the cat. 'Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

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You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.

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Think of the millions of people who live together even if they don't like it, they hate their job but are afraid of losing it, it's normal that they should have the face they have.

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They think I'm mad because I'm not willing to sell my days for gold... and I think them crazy because they think my days may have a price.

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The artifice of the happy endings in stories always annoyed my Nini; she is convinced that in life there are no endings, but boundaries, wandering here and there, tripping over, getting lost.